Thank you, curlcoat, we can use all the good thoughts we can get!
We’ve actually been pretty fortunate with the vets up here; the worst vets we ran into were down in San Diego. Maybe they’re spoiled for choice and don’t care if they lose clients? The vet who refused to call us back was Candy Lewis of Harmony Animal Hospital in Hillcrest. Another time, one of my Dad’s little shih tzus nipped a hole in Libélula’s thigh that needed four stitches to close, and the first vet (VCA in La Mesa) I went to wanted to put my little whippet under general anesthesia and keep her overnight to do it. No. We found another vet at Broadway Animal Hospital who gave her a local and stitched her up in 15 minutes, sending us home with some preventative antibiotics. It took longer to get the bill and pay it and get out. Dr. White in Murrieta of Valley Veterinary is an incredible vet, but because he’s so great, he was always booked up at least a week out, and being a 40+ mile drive, was not an emergency option. I do wish he was here in Yreka, things might have played out differently. But who knows how much difference it would make? Prostatic cancer is prostatic cancer. The diagnosis is there and it sucks. I do wish I’d known before the tumor began pushing into his rectum, but I’m trying not to dwell on what-ifs. Blah.
It would be nice though if we had an actual veterinary oncologist closer than 250 miles to consult, and Tahoe has to go to Southern Oregon Veterinary (50 miles away) for his chemo but we are happy with their treatment.
They are the closest emergency vet, so I hope we never have an emergency in winter when the pass is closed.
I just wished I’d pushed harder, I should have pushed for an ultrasound as soon as I even had the thought of stones. Our regular vet was just too passive, I guess is what I feel, with an attitude of, “well, let’s try this and see” and I didn’t know that his symptoms could indicate something much worse than stones and didn’t push the issue. There I go with the what-ifs.
Anyway.
Sigmagirl, if you end up hiding a lot of people, this might not help much, but when you’ve hidden someone and they post, you don’t see it but there is a little option on the bottom of the page that says “4 Hidden Posts” (or whatever number of blather posts they’ve posted) and and option to “show hidden posts” which you can click when you have time and feel like checking up on what they’ve been up to when you have the time & inclination without having to go to their wall specifically to check up. Hope that helps.
manx How do you mean that your music got wiped? You should be able to connect it to iTunes without it automatically restoring factory settings–if you mean you are worried about it auto syncing, you can now disable that under the iTunes->Preferences->Devices->disable auto sync before you hook it up to the computer. Then, if your ipod shows up, you can go from there, there might still be ways to get your music off it before restoring it and then refilling it, although if you are having problems and have an apple store nearby, it might just be easier to go there, although the last time I had an ipod die, that was it, game over, no way to back it up once it was kaput apparently.
And to add my own very mini minirant. Damn, it’s stupid hot. I’m going to try and eat my weight in ice cream.
